PSN-Exclusive Rock Band DLC Sale Next Week

John Drake from Harmonix here. We’re hard at work finishing up Rock Band 3 for its release in just a few short weeks (October 26th! Pre-order Now!). RB3 has an amazing 83 song setlist that runs the musical gamut, including tracks from Queen, Hendrix, Paramore, Slipknot, the Beach Boys, Huey Lewis and the News… it’s a crazy group of awesome songs.

The only thing more impressive than the setlist of Rock Band 3 is the fact that it supports the entirety of your existing DLC catalog. So what better time than now to add to your song collection from our 1500+ track catalog?

But what to buy? Well how about some tracks that are on sale exclusively for the PlayStation Community? That’s right, we’re offering amazing singles, packs and full albums for sale just for you guys! Whether you’re looking for metal, classic rock, pop or punk, any or all of these songs make great additions to your library, just in time for RB3! See below for the full list and see you rocking on PSN!

And, of course, stay tuned to RockBand.com to catch the latest announcements about weekly Rock Band DLC!

Talk about burning early adopters on the CCR Pack. You put out only one good pack of DLC this year, and then turn around and stab everyone in the back who got it prior to this sale (along with no pro guitar charts before RB 3).

Also, what’s the over/under on how many things will still be broken in RB 3 from the first 2 games? You know what I’m talking about:

One massive save file for all tracks, unable to delete single songs from your hard drive.

Voice chat still broken in online multiplayer.

Game that looks and runs inferior to it’s 360 counterpart and more like the Wii version.

Important point, here, guys: these songs are NOT going to have Pro-Mode or keyboard charts if you buy them now…but you better believe AFTER RB3 is released, that they are going to be re-released with the new bells and whistles. And Harmonix WILL say that there is no way to update existing DLC to add these things…so you’ll get to buy them again if you want to play them…

will left-handed players have an option to play using a left-handed Pro guitar? Can we just string the Fender MIDI guitar backward, or will the tilt sensor no longer work? Several of my friends and I want to pre-order, but need a real answer on this issue!

Does RB3 have higher quality audio codecs/bitrates versus RB2?

Another vote from me for Dance Central on PS3 with HD audio. It’s cool with me if I have to hold a Move in order to get better skeletal tracking. Then again, Kung Fu Live doesn’t need the Move to do it’s (albeit simpler) tracking.

Just because you have limited tastes in music doesn’t mean the CCR pack was the only good DLC to come out this year.

@Quijanoth
Seriously, why don’t you actually do some research first? This is John Drake’s comment about DLC from PAX:

“We have the technology to update older songs and DLC for keyboards, pro-guitar, and pro-bass, and maybe harmonies. Two things: 1. Keep in mind, especially any of you familiar with the RBN, there are no keyboard audio streams in those old songs, there’s like actual substantial changes, so if you miss a note with the keyboard, the keyboard goes away, which we think is really important for gameplay. [2.] And it’s a lot of f**king work.”

So yes, it is possible to update old DLC.

Anyway, great sale, will definitely pick up the Slipknot and Night Range packs so “Before I Forget” and “Sister Christian” don’t feel lonely when I pick up Rock Band 3.

Great sale for the PS3, but would have it really killed you guys to include the psp downloadable content in the sale? It’s a slap in the face to your costomers that the only version of rock band available for purchase is the lite version which contains 5 songs. I know u can purchase many of the songs which are on the umd version of the game, but it would cost a fortune to buy all of them. Please include the psp in future sales and release a full version of rock band on the psn store. Thanks for reading.

RB1 has already been exported, so those don’t need to be exported again. As for RB2, we know it’ll be exported, we just don’t know what songs will make the jump nor how much it’ll cost. We’ll probably know in a week or two because RB1 was able to export about a month before RB2’s release IIRC.

@ libreg:
So, Harmonix says it is difficult and impractical to add the new stuff to DLC,and you read that as “but we’ll still do it?”
But yeah…bad research on my part. I’m sure they’ll just update our old stuff for free.

They’ve said that with RB3, they have built in the infrastructure to support updates to DLC. They’re fully capable of going back and updating songs, but have noted that it’s a huge amount of work involved (the pro guitar charts supposedly take as much time to do as the entire rest of the DLC file). They’ve even asked us on numerous occasions to speak up on the forums about which songs and artists we’d like to see updated with keys/harmonies/pro guitar (there’s a thread that is over 500 posts on this very topic, making requests so Harmonix has an idea of what to go after first).

We aren’t going to have to buy the songs twice. At most, we’ll have to buy the updated pieces, but it’s not going to nullify your purchasing any of the existing content right now. They’ve said a number of times that they don’t want to charge us again for things we’ve already bought, but that doesn’t mean we won’t have to buy the upgrades. They’re not going to simply re-release the song and give you everything that is currently there plus more, but rather release only the upgrade material separately on top of the existing files you can currently purchase.